BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | July 16, 2012

We have owned and operated a Belize adventure company since 1986. Our Belize private island, Long Caye at Glover’s Reef, is very remote. Because of this, we can’t sell rooms by the night, the boat only goes 2 days a week. So our packages are all inclusive, and we also include hotels and meals in Belize City on each end of the island trip. For the last fifteen years at least we have taken our g

By Slickrock Adventures | July 12, 2012

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which is the oldest and largest conservation organization in the US, was founded in NYC in the late 1800’s as the New York Zoological Society. Today they maintain an international presence all over the world with conservation areas, research centers, and NGO’s working with governments on various projects to promote wildlife conservation. WCS owns Middle

By Slickrock Adventures | June 18, 2012

Every week we go tide pooling at low tide from our Belize island. It’s amazing the number of creatures we see in about 45 minutes. Everyone always comments that it was WAY better than they thought it was going to be. We see numerous echinoderms (sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins) plus mollusks, eels, scorpionfish, and sometime octopus! We invented a low tide bucket, a simple 5 gallon buc

By Slickrock Adventures | June 14, 2012

OK, it’s not nice to brag, but surely you’ll forgive me for talking about our private bonefish school. The way I understand it, bonefish do not normally school. But we have a huge bonefish school, they live right off our shore, and they have been there for years. Just 20 feet from our shore! We snorkel with them, we fish them (catch and release), we practically have names for each one. Yes, we

By Slickrock Adventures | June 6, 2012

Thanks to whoever wrote this great review on Trip Advisor, which returned us to the #1 ranked Belize resort on Glover’s Reef: I took the Belize Adventure Week trip in April and had an absolutely great time. Half of the trip is inland at the mountain region (Cayo District) and the other half is at Slickrock’s private Island. I traveled solo but never felt alone. Our group was small, just 4

By Slickrock Adventures | May 30, 2012

Prominent stand-up-paddleboard website SUP Connect lists Adventure Island on Long Caye as one of five top “exceptional and unique” SUP destinations, along with Punta Mita, Mexico; Dana Point, California; Sauble Lake, Lake Huron, Ontario; and North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii. SUP Connect is also posting this article today about Bart de Zwart, a 42 year old SUP maniac from Maui, who is cross

By Slickrock Adventures | May 21, 2012

We are closed from mid-May through mid-November; the first part of the summer is the rainy season, which then becomes hurricane season in the fall. Each year when we shut down for the season, our crew undertakes the long process of putting away the equipment for the summer and fall to close down our island facilities. This takes Apolitico Salam, our head groundskeeper and maintenance man, about tw

By Slickrock Adventures | May 16, 2012

I’ve been back from the island about 2 weeks now. It hasn’t been an easy re-entry. There are so many things I miss about the island, and not the least of which is having all of my meals cooked for me three times a day by Aurora, Lavern, and Marcy. I have a lot of favorite meals (since I am responsible for the menu, I do like all of them), but maybe my favorite lunch is Zucchini and Cho-Cho Enc

By Slickrock Adventures | May 7, 2012

Every week we snorkel The Aquarium, just a 1/2 mile paddle from our island. It’s a shallow patch reef surrounded by bright white coral sand.